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23.10.2024 Europe’s Promise of Peace: Embracing Human Security and Just Peace in EU Policies
As the European Union navigates a world marked by conflicts and division, Justice and Peace Europe, the Community of Sant’Egidio and Pax Christi International, as Catholic organisations, urge a reaffirmation of the EU’s foundational commitment to Just Peace. Read here our Peace Manifesto.
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30.09.2024 Jubilee 2025: Settle unjust and unpayable debts
In preparation of the ordinary Jubilee 2025, Pope Francis has called affluent nations to “forgive the debts of countries that will never be able to repay them”. Echoing his call, Justice and Peace Europe invites the European Union and its Member States to assume its part in a global effort to resolve the current debt crisis. Read the full Statement.
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23.09.2024 Values and critical thinking are pillars of dialogue in truth
Justice & Peace Europe discussed the challenges of disinformation and the contribution of Catholic Social Teaching to the renewal of an authentic public discourse. The forty delegates representing twenty European Justice and Peace commissions and several invited guests gathered from 20 to 23 September 2024 for the annual International Workshop and General Assembly in Prague. Read here the Press release
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14.08.2024 Justice & Peace Europe mourns the death of former President Mgr. Noël Treanor
Archbishop Noël Treanor, Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union and former President of Justice & Peace Europe passed away on Sunday, August 11, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium, at the age of 73. Read our homage to him.
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14.06.2024 Developing pathways to peace
A plea of the Executive Committee of Justice and Peace Europe for a just peace on the occasion of the high-level conference on peace in Ukraine on 15th and 16th June 2024 on the Bürgenstock. Read it here.
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31.05.2024 Solidarity and Support - Justice and Peace Europe met the Holy Land Justice and Peace Commission
On 21 May, Justice and Peace Europe organised an online meeting with eminent members of the Justice and Peace commission of the Holy Land. Representatives of more than twenty European Justice and Peace commissions took part in the event. Read here the Press release.
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17.05.2024 Support for Peace and Human Rights in Armenia and Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh
The Catholic Justice and Peace Europe network has requested lead candidates for the European elections to support a strong engagement of the European Union with Armenia and Armenian refugees and internally displaced persons from Nagorno-Karabakh over the next European political cycle. Read the Statement
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09.05.2024 A Call to Democracy: Uniting for Europe's Tomorrow
On the occasion of the 9th of May - Europe Day - and in view of the forthcoming European elections, the Executive Committee of Justice and Peace Europe publishes a Statement entitled: "A Call to Democracy: Uniting for Europe's Tomorrow". Click here to read it.
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15.02.2024 The presidency of Justice and Peace Europe on a solidarity visit to Ukraine
From 12 to 13 February, Maria Hammershoy and Archbishop Antoine Hérouard, the co-presidents of Justice and Peace Europe, visited Lviv in Ukraine. They were accompanied by Stefan Lunte, the secretary general of Justice and Peace Europe. Read here more about their solidarity visit.
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11.02.2024 Continued solidarity with the people of Ukraine
The Secretaries General of the European Justice and Peace Commissions met in Berlin between the 9th and 11th February, and they adopted the following Statement.
